When the Rug Doctor Lost His Shadow

Lindsay Stern ’13 was visiting Amherst during her junior year of high school when she stopped in Northampton with her parents and noticed a storefront awning for “The Rug Doctor.”

“The next morning,” she says, “I wrote a few paragraphs on a rug doctor who loses his shadow.” That rug doctor is now the main character in Stern’s debut novella, Town of Shadows, published by Scrambler Books last month.